In Modem, there is a possible system crash due to improper input validation. This could lead to remote denial of service, if a UE has connected to a rogue base station controlled by the attacker, with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. Patch ID: MOLY01826924; Issue ID: MSV-7301.
CVE-2026-20457
Score 5.3 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-07-01. CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 baseline 5.3; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 5.3
- EG Score
- 5.3(high)
- EPSS
- 8.0%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 1, 2026
Last Modified
July 1, 2026
References (1)
- security@mediatekhttps://corp.mediatek.com/product-security-bulletin/July-2026
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-20457(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 17× in last 7d / 17× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-06 16:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 16:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 08:09 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-06 08:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-06 02:23 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-05 08:10 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-05 08:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-05 02:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-05 02:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-04 08:12 UTCEG score recompute▲ 5.30
- 2026-07-04 08:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-04 06:31 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-01 15:06 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-01 15:06 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-01 13:52 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 5.3 · severity → MEDIUM
- 2026-07-01 05:22 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-01 05:20 UTCNVD updatefirst tracked
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